Asia/Pacific
INDIA
India heads to polls in single largest day of voting
India holds its single biggest day of voting on Thursday in a five-week-long election that pits the ruling Congress party against opposition Hindu nationalist leader Narendra Modi...
SOUTH KOREA
Frantic search for survivors of sunken South Korea ferry
Rescue teams on Thursday resumed the search for the hundreds of passengers who are still missing after a ferry sank off the South Korean coast a day earlier. So far, nine people ha...
INDIA
India's Supreme Court establishes third gender category
India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a landmark verdict creating a third gender category, paving the way for people to identify themselves as transgendered on official documents...
MALAYSIA
Bluefin-21 'mini-sub' redeploys for Malaysian jet
A US Navy unmanned Bluefin-21 mini-sub made a second sweep of the remote Indian Ocean seabed on Tuesday after being forced to abort its first attempt a day earlier when it hit deep...
AFGHANISTAN
Abdullah leads in tight Afghan presidential poll
Former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah is leading against his main rival Ashraf Ghani in a tight race for Afghanistan’s presidential post, partial official results showed Sunday...
INDIA
Deadly bomb explosion kills Indian election officials
Suspected Maoist rebels set off two bombs in the eastern Indian state of Chhattisgarh on Saturday, killing about a dozen people, most of them paramilitary soldiers and officials ch...
INDIA - ELECTION
India’s anti-graft party face make-or-break vote
As Indians in the capital voted Thursday in the critical third phase of the world’s biggest election, all eyes are on the Aam Aadmi (Common Man’s) Party, which was founded as an al...
IRAN
Iran, six powers struggle to narrow gaps in nuclear talks
Iran’s supreme leader encouraged the continuation of nuclear talks on Wednesday but said Tehran would never slow down its nuclear research programme, as negotiators struggled to na...
INDIA
Can Narendra Modi duplicate ‘the Gujarat miracle’ across India?
Opinion polls indicate controversial Indian politician Narendra Modi could be India's next prime minister following the 2014 election. FRANCE 24 travels to Gujarat, Modi’s hom...
INDIA
Facts and figures: India votes in world’s biggest election
With around 814 million voters casting their ballots across the country over six weeks, the 2014 Indian legislative election is a gigantic democratic exercise.
PAKISTAN
Giant Pakistani art project targets US drone operators
A group of international artists have begun placing giant posters with children's faces on the ground in Pakistan's troubled tribal regions, in a bid to generate empathy...
MALAYSIA
Search chief hopes to find MH370 wreckage 'within days'
The Australian official in charge of coordinating the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 said Wednesday that wreckage from the plane could be found “within days” aft...
INDIA
World's biggest election gets under way in India
India's 814-million-strong electorate began voting Monday in the world's largest election, which is set to sweep the Hindu nationalist opposition to power amid anger over...
MALAYSIA
